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never should have granted cert
unsigned, unexplained rulings preponder
most of them allowing Trump to trample the law and the people
secret ballots ftw
https://www.propublica.org/article/s...ings-milestone
Last edited by Winehole23; 07-01-2026 at 08:48 AM.
never should have granted cert
radical, extremist Republicans on SCOTUS doing radical, extreme things
https://prospect.org/2026/07/01/supr...gender-sports/
from NRSC v FEC
https://bsky.app/profile/genevievela.../3mpob4dp4rk2fThis is a crazy way to think about politics: that it is "central" to democracy to translate money into “ingratiation and access” : that this is what it means to govern ourselves. It is this, not money = speech, that explains what is so wrong about this entire line of cases, laid out very baldly here
tl;dr
SCOTUS has removed restrictions on dark money and campaign coordination
Last edited by Winehole23; 07-04-2026 at 12:56 PM.
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Last edited by Winehole23; 07-04-2026 at 09:44 AM.
big brother government is Republican coded
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/07/s...onsent-on-app/Supreme Court allows Texas to enforce law requiring age verification and parental consent on apps
SCOTUS is cruising for a bruising and it has only itself to blame
James Clyburn says on @meetthepress.com that he supports adding four seats to the Supreme Court: “A baker’s dozen would be a good number to have on the court.”
https://bsky.app/profile/stevevladec.../3mufuien2f22kThe Trump administration has filed 36 emergency applications since last February, which have generated 31 conclusive rulings.
In those 31 rulings, the Court has voted *for* Trump in whole or in part 27 times (87.1%), and against him four times (12.9%).
Here's a chart covering all of these rulings:
Alito holds 175,000 worth of investments in fossil fuel companies, disclosure showshttps://www.forbes.com/sites/alisond...closure-shows/The court will hear oral arguments as part of a dispute over whether fossil fuel companies can be held liable for their role in exacerbating climate change.
blatant support of a degenerate loser POTUS will be the proximate cause of the SCOTUS majority losing its majority
SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now says it's too soon for states to challenge Trump EO restricting mail voting even though midterms 70 days away. Justice Jackson rightly calls it "Kafkaesque nightmare"
SCOTUS rolled back civil rights and is rolling back the Reconstruction
Taking away Congress's power to enforce the 14th Amendment was momentous, it tips the USA back into Jim Crow voting suppression.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics...siana-callais/On May 8, hundreds of civil rights protesters, carrying signs that said, “No Jim Crow Maps” and “Hands Off Our Vote,” descended on Baton Rouge to oppose a plan by Louisiana’s Republican-controlled legislature to dismantle one or both of the state’s majority-Black congressional districts. They packed a Senate hearing, occupied three overflow rooms, and spilled into the Capitol’s halls.
Just 10 days earlier, the Supreme Court had destroyed the Voting Rights Act in its Louisiana v. Callais decision, triggering a mad rush to eliminate majority-Black districts across Southern states. The next day, Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, despite 42,000 already-cast ballots,suspendedLouisiana’s House primaries to give his party time to push through a new map reducing Black representation in Congress before the 2026 midterms.
Democratic Rep. Cleo Fields was on the front lines of this fight. It was his district, stretching 200 miles from Baton Rouge to Shreveport, that Callais had set the stage for invalidating, with Justice Samuel Alito calling it “an uncons utional racial gerrymander.”
The Supreme Court’s decision decimating Section 2 of the VRA—which had required that racial minorities have an equal opportunity to meaningfully participate in elections—threatens to return the country to a pre-1965 America, when white supremacy was the law of the land and Congress contained no Black members from the South. “This has sent us back, in my view, over 60 years,” Fields says.
When he appeared before the state Senate that day to testify against the new redistricting plans, he was joined by three other veteran Black politicians. Although Fields, a 63-year-old lawyer, has a reputation as an even-keeled consensus builder, he grew emotional as he spoke.
“To me, it is personal,” he told the Senate committee. “Since Reconstruction, Louisiana has elected four African Americans to Congress. And you’re looking at all of them. Four.” Even though nearly a third of Louisiana’s population is Black.
“You said something very profound,” state Sen. Gary Carter Jr., an African American Democrat from New Orleans, told Fields. “From the 1870s all the way through [the] present, just you four gentlemen—that’s it. And now this body wants to reduce that. ‘We want to cut it. That’s too many.’ How do we not be outraged?”
Before these four men, Louisiana had elected just two Black members of Congress, both during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, America’s fleeting 12-year experiment with multiracial democracy. One, Fields told the senators, was John Willis Menard, who became the first Black person ever elected to Congress in 1868. The other, Charles Edmund Nash, served just one term, beginning in 1875. A vicious white backlash to Reconstruction made it impossible for him to get reelected amid the disputed presidential contest in 1876, which culminated in federal troops withdrawing from the South and the official end of Reconstruction. After Nash, “Louisiana went 114 years without a single African American in Congress,” Fields later explains in an interview.
During Reconstruction, racial equality was written into the Cons ution through the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. As a result, from 1865 to 1877, roughly 2,000 Black officeholders were elected. That number dropped to virtually zero once Jim Crow’s racist legal regime took hold just a few years later, as the federal government—led by the Supreme Court—abandoned enforcement of the Reconstruction amendments.
SCOTUS with its thumb on the scale for Trump and Republicans for the midterms
Last-second vote purges and pretextual voter challenges are possible using a flawed tool to mitigate a problem -- ineligible voting -- that is statistically infinitessimal.
ttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/us/politics/supreme-court-citizenship-voter-lists.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1E.PjWr.GRxXZh O42N4-&smid=url-shareThe Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Trump administration can deploy an expansive online system that combines citizenship information, Social Security numbers and other sensitive data about millions of Americans, including to allow states to use it to hunt for ineligible voters.
Critics fear that using the system could result in the purging of large numbers of valid voters from state rolls, if states choose to use it ahead of the midterm elections.
The majority concluded that a lower-court ruling that had blocked the Trump administration from rolling out the system was improper because it inhibited “the federal government’s efforts to assist state and local agencies in the proper administration of the midterm elections.”
SCOTUS with its thumb on the scale for Trump and Republicans for the midterms
Last-second vote purges and pretextual voter challenges are possible using a flawed tool to mitigate a problem -- ineligible voting -- that is statistically infinitessimal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...smid=url-shareThe Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Trump administration can deploy an expansive online system that combines citizenship information, Social Security numbers and other sensitive data about millions of Americans, including to allow states to use it to hunt for ineligible voters.
Critics fear that using the system could result in the purging of large numbers of valid voters from state rolls, if states choose to use it ahead of the midterm elections.
The majority concluded that a lower-court ruling that had blocked the Trump administration from rolling out the system was improper because it inhibited “the federal government’s efforts to assist state and local agencies in the proper administration of the midterm elections.”
In a 12-page dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson emphasized that the majority’s decision created the conditions for some states to cancel the voter registrations of at least some recently naturalized citizens or to force them to provide proof of citizenship before voting.
“The harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a few lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the government experiences when it is prevented from taking an action that it likely lacks the authority to take,” she wrote, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25.
That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama administrations
we're within 90 days, so no mass voter purges are likely, but individualized challenges are available
from Justice Jackson's dissent
packing the court is the (polled) majority view
today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
i think that the best way the understand conservative legal philosophy is to know that, literally, it was constructed backward from the premise that a Republican president should be permitted to commit crimes against democracy
In American Law, the Unitary Executive Theory is a cons utional law theory according to which all Executive power is united solely in the Republican Party.
"disparate impacts only count when white people are negatively affected"
SCOTUS can't hear a case because four justices have book deals with one of the parties so it lacks a quorum
www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...Because four of the Justices have book contracts with a party's corporate parent, the Supreme Court LACKS A QUORUM to hear BMG v. Vetter, and one of the worst copyright decisions in recent memory is affirmed by default. It's just one bad look after another.
^^^ "this high-performing public school has TOO MANY MINORITIES"
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